mprweb
Hosting platform for the makedeb Package Repository (MPR) (by makedeb)
nixGL
A wrapper tool for nix OpenGL application [maintainer=@guibou] (by nix-community)
| mprweb | nixGL | |
|---|---|---|
| 28 | 27 | |
| 14 | 778 | |
| - | 3.9% | |
| 0.0 | 5.1 | |
| about 11 hours ago | 11 months ago | |
| Python | Nix | |
| GNU General Public License v3.0 only | - |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
mprweb
Posts with mentions or reviews of mprweb.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-07-03.
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Would it be technically possible for an arch server to build and serve aur packages to other machines/distros?
Debian has the MPR https://mpr.makedeb.org/
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Debian User Repository MPR AUR for Debian
https://mpr.makedeb.org/ this is the link.
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Doesn’t using a different package manager defeat the purpose of Debian?
I know the MPR is a thing, but I've always found it unwieldy to use.
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LURE development progress update (December 2021)
So the main difference from something like MPR is that it does that same thing, but for more packages, not only .deb files?
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Newer packages on PopOS?
Regarding system repositores, it's generally best to avoid tampering with system repositories like this because it'll cause problems with release upgrades down the line. But if you really want to, look into https://mpr.makedeb.org/ with the expectation that a release upgrade with these packages installed will most likely fail.
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PSA: For all you ex-Arch users out there, check out `makedeb` and `lure` for all of your out-of-band software needs
makedeb - Like makepkg, but produces installable *.deb files. There are already lots of packages in the MPR
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ArchBuntu logo
Actually exists! https://mpr.makedeb.org/
- Daily dose of snap hate
- MPR - The AUR, For Debian
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Introducing Mist: An AUR-helper like application for Debian and Ubuntu based systems
Mist is powered by the MPR, an AUR-like repository that's also for Debian and Ubuntu based systems (of which I'm also the project lead for, as well as the makedeb project listed below). In short, it uses pretty much the same PKGBUILD format that you'd see on Arch Linux, but uses them to build .deb packages instead of Arch Linux packages.
nixGL
Posts with mentions or reviews of nixGL.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-12-26.
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Ghostty 1.0
nixGL is also likely required on non-NixOS Linux distros.
https://github.com/nix-community/nixGL
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Ask HN: Are there wrapper/runner programs that encrypt writes and decrypt reads?
How can a program accomplish this? by using/doing something like virtualization? emulation? syscall/API translation? e.g. like WINE?
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Nix without NixOS, how doable is this and how much do I miss?
Essentially, running stuff that needs GL graphics is a bit funky... There's a workaround called nixGL though.
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Calibre Replacement Considerations
I think installing Calibre is a good use case for installing Nix (www.nixos.org).
Unfortunately, you might also need https://github.com/guibou/nixGL to run graphical apps under Nix. It's a shell script to use the correct OpenGL library.
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Nix-env apps on Debian unable to be executed via GUI KDE.
Try the NixGL wrapper.
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Issue: with python-matplotlib
Are you running the Nix package manager on not-NixOS? If so I recall needing NixGL for OpenGL integration.
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How do I update packages when using home-manager?
$ nix-channel --list home-manager https://github.com/nix-community/home-manager/archive/release-22.05.tar.gz nixgl https://github.com/guibou/nixGL/archive/main.tar.gz nixos https://nixos.org/channels/nixos-unstable
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functional
Needs a separate program to run GUI applications on non-NixOS systems
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Imagine your entire purpose being made completely obsolete by a single compiler option
IMO the proper solution to this is Nix/Guix, since they have the best of both worlds (sharing libraries where possible, but allowing different versions where needed). Shame that libGL is a mess and as such is difficult to get right in this way, and as such you need hacks like https://github.com/guibou/nixGL for most GUI stuff. That said, people are working on improving the situation.
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Setting up my new laptop: Nix style
I get what you mean, but keep in mind that for every distro you're reliant on the community to get nvidia support integrated. Also if you only have few apps that require it, then the nixGL flake is not bad. https://github.com/guibou/nixGL
What are some alternatives?
When comparing mprweb and nixGL you can also consider the following projects:
lure - The community repository missing from your Linux distro
not-os - An operating system generator, based on NixOS, that, given a config, outputs a small (47 MB), read-only squashfs for a runit-based operating system, with support for iPXE and signed boot.
pacstall - An AUR-inspired package manager for Ubuntu
Home Manager using Nix - Manage a user environment using Nix [maintainer=@rycee]
Atoms - Easily manage Linux Chroot(s) and Containers with Atoms.
napalm - Support for building npm packages in Nix and lightweight npm registry [maintainer=?]